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August 2, 2007

Melt I.C.E.! Monthly Peaceful Protests and Vigils for Human Rights

Every second Saturday of the month we provide coffe, hot chocolate, solidarity and support to families visiting their loved ones at the I.C.E. Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. The next vigil will be on August 11 with a theme of “Comfortless Food,” calling attention to the fact that people in the privately owned ICE facility are not being given enough food to eat.

The vigil will be Saturday, August 11,Â from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in front of:

Northwest Detention Center
1623 E. J Street
Tacoma, WA 98421

Directions:

From south of Tacoma: take exit #134 to Portland Avenue, turn left on Portland Avenue.Â Continue on Portland Avenue for about a mile, and bear left onto St. Paul Ave. Turn left onto East J Street and proceed to the detention center.

From the North of Tacoma: Take exit #135 to Portland Avenue, turn right.Â The rest of the directions are the same as above.Â

For more information, call 360-752-3344, or email notinmycounty@qwest.net.

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August 02nd 2007 Posted to Events, Home Page, Press Releases & Announcements

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Refocusing the Immigration Reform Debate

by David Cahn, Community Organizer

David Cahn

Immigration reform died in Congress for a second time this past June and probably won’t be approached again on a federal level until we have a new occupant in the Oval Office.Â Instead of quieting down though, the debate over immigration reform has only intensified and spilled over into cities, counties and states across the nation.Â The battle over immigration is now down to the local level as Minutemen-type groups are pushing for a variety of anti-immigrant ordinances

While some elected officials and right-wing pundits have distracted people with talk of individual border crossers being the root of our ills, few people have publicly talked about the much larger and actual threat of corporate border crossers.Â There is a direct connection between companies and jobs moving out of our country and people doing whatever they can to come in.Â When corporations can travel the world looking for the cheapest labor costs and lowest environmental protections, we all suffer.Â Those on the left and right, Mexican immigrants and Minutemen, teachers, baristas and truck drivers and everyone in between all suffer.Â Some want to blame immigrants for problems in our healthcare system, public education or lack of decent paying jobs.Â It might be easy, but it will not solve anything. (more…)

August 02nd 2007 Posted to Articles and Editorials, Home Page, Immigrants in America, Press Releases & Announcements

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Community to Community, Hate Free Zone, and WA Citizen Action Network Hold Press Conference

Press conference at vigil in front of the Tacoma Detention Center, July 11, 2007.

A tale of the American gulag:
Immigration officials are now targeting legal U.S. residents

by Cindy Gillis, Staff Reporter, Real Change (Published 7/18/2007)

Gena Mejia chose to buy a house in Monroe because it was a beautiful town and it had so many churches. Little did she know the lack of Christian charity that her next-door neighbors would show to a Mexican couple. [read full story]

Activists hold vigil on Tideflats for human rights

by John Larson, Tacoma Weekly (Published 7/19/2007)

Tim Smith has been perhaps the loudest critic of the Northwest Detention Center, a facility on the Tideflats that detains immigrants on behalf of the federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). It is operated by GEO Group Inc.

Smith is chair of the Tacoma chapter of the Bill of Rights Defense Committee. Standing before the detention center at the start of a 24-hour vigil July 13, he claimed the company requires inmates to purchase calling cards to use the telephone. “That is one way GEO keeps its costs down,” he stated. “You start to see where their profit margins are.” [read full story]

August 02nd 2007 Posted to Articles and Editorials, Home Page, Press Releases & Announcements

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July 6, 2007

24-Hour Vigil for Human Rights at Northwest Detention Center

Organizing for Community Security in the I.C.E. Age

Community to Community Development invites all social justice, faith, labor and community groups to a peaceful vigil at the privately run Northwest Detention Center in Tacoma, WA. As Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) continues to terrorize and break apart families in Washington and across the nation, we need to come together for human rights and community security. Come with signs and coffee and baked goods for families visiting their detained relatives inside. Stay and learn how to get involved with the growing immigrant rights network in the region!

Friday, July 13 6 p.m. through Saturday, July 14 6 p.m.
Northwest Detention Center
1623 E. J Street
Tacoma, WA

Come for as long as you can! Click here to view flyer.

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I.C.E. in our communities: Immigration Activists Respond

by Rosalinda Guillen & Luis Moscoso
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The “War on Terrorism” has turned into a bigoted war on poor people abroad. “Homeland Security” has unleashed their “Fugitive Operations Teams” to harass immigrant workers and their employers in the U.S.Â Recent Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids across the state - in Bellingham, Yakima, Tacoma, Everett and more - have torn several hundred people from their families and communities. I.C.E. raids have become increasingly militaristic, aggressive and heartless: spreading insecurity, fear and terror among immigrants and their neighbors and employers throughout Washington State. (more…)

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June 8, 2007

Melt I.C.E.! Vigil for Human Rights

As a historic debate unfolds in the Congress, Federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) agents continue to terrorize immigrant communities in Washington State and across the country with carefully orchestrated raids, armed arrests, covert detentions and deportations. We ask that you join us in protest of these aggressive enforcement tactics and violations of our neighbors’ civil and human rights. Many of our friends and neighbors are being held in this private corporate run Detention Center that is being funded by our tax dollars!. Join us by Saying NO! to this injustice and being in solidarity with immigrant families from across the State. We must be present NOW! The current immigration reform compromise includes resources for detaining 27, 500 immigrant workers a day on an annual basis, this is outreageous! Come and see for yourself what your tax dollars will be used for if the current immigration reform bill is passed, there could be a detention center like this one built in your back yard to “detain” your immigrant friends and neighbors.

1-4pm, Sat. June 9th
Northwest Detention Center
1623 E. J Street - Tacoma, WA 98421
(360) 381-0293 - notinmycounty@qwest.net

June 08th 2007 Posted to Events, Home Page, Press Releases & Announcements

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Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

by Frank Morales
Thursday, 26 October 2006

In a stealth maneuver, President Bush has signed into law a provision which, according to Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont), will actually encourage the President to declare federal martial law (1). It does so by revising the Insurrection Act, a set of laws that limits the President’s ability to deploy troops within the United States. The Insurrection Act (10 U.S.C.331 -335) has historically, along with the Posse Comitatus Act (18 U.S.C.1385), helped to enforce strict prohibitions on military involvement in domestic law enforcement. With one cloaked swipe of his pen, Bush is seeking to undo those prohibitions. (more…)

June 08th 2007 Posted to Articles and Editorials, Home Page

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Halliburton’s Immigrant Detention Centers

by Ruth Conniff
April 17, 2006

While thousands of people were celebrating the contribution America’s undocumented immigrants make to our economy, and demanding justice and recognition for workers who are denied basic rights, the government was making plans for large-scale detention centers in case of an “emergency influx” of immigrants.

KBR, the Halliburton subsidiary recently reprimanded for gross overcharging in its military contracts in Iraq, won a $385 million contract to build the centers. According to the Halliburton website–www.Halliburton.com–”the contract, which is effective immediately, provides for establishing temporary detention and processing capabilities to augment existing ICE Detention and Removal Operations Program facilities in the event of an emergency influx of immigrants into the U.S., or to support the rapid development of new programs.”

What new programs might those be?

Read full article in “The Progressive Magazine”…

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June 08th 2007 Posted to Articles and Editorials, Home Page, Immigrants in America

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Immigration Reform at the Crossroads

Judith Golub, Immigrant Legal ResourceÂ

The Senate has been debating S. 1348, the so-called “grand compromise,” the Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007. The House of Representatives is expected to follow in the summer with its own bill.

This debate is long past due because our immigration system is badly broken and reform is vitally needed. Such reform should solve the problems in our current system so that it makes sense and is just and effective, and would include the following components: an earned adjustment for the people who are here, a new worker program that would allow people to change employers, have full labor rights, bring their families with them, and self-petition for permanent residency and citizenship; and a reduction in the long backlogs in family based immigration.

However, the “grand compromise” is a grand disappointment. (more…)

June 08th 2007 Posted to Articles and Editorials, Home Page

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May 22, 2007

Fast and Vigil on May 22nd in Bellingham, WA

Participate on Tuesday, May 22nd in a 24 Hour Fast & Solidarity Vigil at the Federal Building in Downtown Bellingham. Come and join us as we join Hate Free Zone, Washington CAN and the Church Council of Greater Seattle as well as many other immigrant rights organizations across the State in urging Senators Murray & Cantwell to support Real Comprehensive Immigration Reform and support family unity for all and protect workers!

Tuesday May 22nd
24hr Fast & Solidarity Vigil
in front of
Bellingham’s Federal Building

The Fast will kick off at Noon at 104 West Magnolia in Bellingham, with the Solidarity Vigil starting at 6PM. Even if you cannot join us for the Fast please join in the Solidarity Vigil with those who are fasting.

Call 360-738-0893 with questions.

Family Values & Real Immigration Reform

The deal reached on Thursday in the Senate ignores our American values of putting families first. It transforms the family based immigration system into a “Rich man’s immigration system” that would limit future immigration to wealthy people and those with college degrees. It’s time to remind the Senate that family values are American values, and that all citizens will be affected by limiting immigrant worker’s chances to be reunited with their loved ones.

Based in the information given so far, the following are the main points we find unnacceptable:

· Family Immigration - Future and current permanent residents and citizens won’t be able to petition for parents, siblings or adult children outside the country. Denies American citizens the right to be reunited with their families and cuts off petitions filed after May of 2005. This means the end of the family-based immigration system created in 1965 that opened the doors to working class, low-income, and people of color. It creates an elitist immigration system that favors wealthy, privileged workers.
· Guest Worker Program - The proposal includes no meaningful path for guest workers to become lawful permanent residents. Creates a permanent underclass of workers with limited worker protections. Advocates fear a repeat of the Bracero experience.
· Point System - The proposal bases future immigration flows on a point system where high skill, income, and education levels determine eligibility for immigration. Opponents stress that the point system does not meet the needs of the economy and separates families.
· Legalization - The “Z visa plan” would provide probationary legal status for undocumented immigrants currently in the U.S. with eventual eligibility for legal permanent residency for qualifying applicants. They would wait between eight to thirteen years, pay fines of up to $5000 per person, have to fulfill a “touch back” requirement, provide proof of work history and getting a biometric identification card.
· Triggers - The system will not take effect until the enforcement piece is implemented, which means security of the borders, new detention centers, more immigration agents.

America’s family-based immigration system reflects American values it honors family ties, which promote integration, entrepreneurial ambition and love for this adopted home. Recognizes current and future Citizens’ and Legal Permanent Residents’ right to family reunification. We stand for a straightforward path to citizenship for undocumented and temporary workers, worker rights, civil liberties, and family reunification for all.

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May 22nd 2007 Posted to Home Page, Immigrants in America, Press Releases & Announcements

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www.notinmycounty.org

August 2, 2007

Melt I.C.E.! Monthly Peaceful Protests and Vigils for Human Rights

Refocusing the Immigration Reform Debate

Community to Community, Hate Free Zone, and WA Citizen Action Network Hold Press Conference

July 6, 2007

24-Hour Vigil for Human Rights at Northwest Detention Center

I.C.E. in our communities: Immigration Activists Respond

June 8, 2007

Melt I.C.E.! Vigil for Human Rights

Bush Moves Toward Martial Law

Halliburton’s Immigrant Detention Centers

Immigration Reform at the Crossroads

May 22, 2007

Fast and Vigil on May 22nd in Bellingham, WA

Tuesday May 22nd
24hr Fast & Solidarity Vigil
in front of
Bellingham’s Federal Building

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